The Awe of God Quotes

“A wise leader made an attention-grabbing statement that's stayed with me for decades. He declared, "I've made it a general principle to refrain from promoting anyone to a place of authority whose record is perfect."
When asked why, he answered, "I learn more about a person's character by their response to failure than anything else. Did they own responsibility, repent, and grow from the experience? Or did they justify their behavior and delegate the blame? It shows if he or she is fit for responsibility." What I learned from that was: it indicates if wisdom is what he or she prizes above all else.”
― John Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“God is the One who knows what’s right for me. God is pure love, and I am the focus of His love. God will never tell me to do anything that is detrimental. Whatever He says will always end up best. Therefore, no matter what He says, I gladly choose to obey.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“On October 2, 1982, Lisa Toscano and I entered a marriage covenant, and she became Lisa Bevere. On that very day she took the position of my wife. She’s not more my wife today than the day I married her, nor will she be more my wife forty years from now. Positionally, she fully became my wife on that wedding day; the work was complete. Similarly, in Christ we were made holy and clean on the day of our salvation, and we will never be more holy. However, once Lisa became my wife, her behavior began to align with her position. Before she was my wife, she dated other guys, gave them her phone number, lived for her own desires, and all the other things single women do, but now she didn’t do these things any longer. Her actions aligned with the covenant we made together. This behavior has grown more mature in aligning with our covenant the longer we’ve been married. Listen to what the apostle Peter writes: [Live] as children of obedience [to God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel]. But as the One Who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living. For it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. (1 Peter 1:14–16 AMPC)”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“A spirit of pride and a spirit of religion go hand in hand, and they strengthen each other by hiding each other.” Pride keeps a person from admitting they’ve become religious, and religion covers up the pride by its spiritual behavior.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“First, if we don’t see Him—if we lack His manifest presence—we can’t know Him intimately. We can only know about Him, not unlike my relationship with United States presidents. Or worse, we deceive ourselves by creating a fictional Jesus. This illusion is most dangerous because we believe we know Someone we don’t. James tells us, “But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves” (James 1: 22). One who is fooled believes they know someone or something, but in reality, they don’t.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“child”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“John”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Onog dana kad sam se zaustavio, čuo sam Duha Božjeg kako šapuće mojem srcu: "Nisam li ti rekao: 'Moli bez prestanka?' " (1 Solunjanima 5,17). Odgovorio sam: "Da, Gospodine, rekao si." Nastavio je dalje: "Je li molitva monolog ili dijalog?" Odgovorio sam: "Dijalog, Gospodine. Razgovor." Brzo su stigle Njegove riječi; "Pa, onda, ako Ja kažem da moliš bez prestanka to znači da sam voljan i razgovarati bez prestanka!”
― John Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“there are millions of Americans just like me—they love Jesus”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Every human being has three images of themselves: a perceived image”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“worked hard all last night and didn’t catch a thing. But if you say so”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Paul”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“You will serve whom you fear! If you fear God”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“First”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Here’s the truth. We cannot do anything to make God love us more or less”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Being in God’s presence is crucial to the spiritual health of every believer.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Rebekah’s womb to open. Jesus promises us”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“To fear God is to reverence and be in complete awe of Him. To fear God is to hallow Him. Hallow is defined as “to respect greatly.” To fear God is to esteem”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.”1”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“mankind’s approval drive you, but be led by the Spirit, staying firm in truth both in what you teach and how you live.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Fear God . . . and keep His commandments, for this is the whole of man [the full, original purpose of his creation, the object of God’s providence, the root of character, the foundation of all happiness, the adjustment to all inharmonious circumstances and conditions under the sun] and the whole [duty] for every man. (Ecclesiastes 12:13 AMPC)”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“When we see Him face-to-face in all His awesome holiness and blazing glory, it will seem incredible to us that we ever had a casual thought in relation to Him. —JOY DAWSON”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Here’s the truth. We cannot do anything to make God love us more or less, but we are responsible for how pleased He is with us. This is why Paul says it’s his goal to be “well pleasing.” Why? For we [believers] must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. (2 Corinthians 5:10–11 NKJV)”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else. —OSWALD CHAMBERS”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“fear God is to esteem, respect, honor, venerate, and adore Him”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“Holy Spirit, I ask that You give me the firm realization in my heart and mind of how much You love and value me, and may I love others the same.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“I’ve been given a free pass. This mentality abandons the treasure of holy fear.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life

“The fear of the Lord provides angelic assistance, fulfilled desires, enduring success, nobility, influence, longevity, productive days, enjoyment in life, happiness, pleasure in labor, healing for our body, and so much more.”
― John Paul Bevere, The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life